Firsts Quotes

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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's. — E. M. Forster
In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into… — Christopher Fry
Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he… — Samuel Johnson
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the first things they teach you in Driver's Ed is where to put your hands on the steering wheel. They tell you put… — George Carlin
In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down,… — George Carlin
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination… — Michel de Montaigne
The first point of courtesy must always be truth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a… — Tertullian
[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy… — N. T. Wright
When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have… — Jane Green
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib… — James M. Barrie
That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly… — Malcolm X
And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might… — Malcolm X
Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned — Mark Twain
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest… — Hugo Black
When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility… — Ronald Reagan
To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just… — Ronald Reagan
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies. — Charles Caleb Colton
You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals;… — Anne Sexton
Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country. — Lord Acton
[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst… — Barbara Pym
I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and that the greatest… — Sterling W Sill
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as… — Charles Caleb Colton

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